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It's counterproductive to conflate racism, homophobia and transphobia with fascism.
They're all disgusting behaviors. Make no mistake, they're all mindless, anti-social, and dangerous. However lumping them into the term fascism trivializes what makes fascism in particular dangerous or appealing to its audience, it falsely suggests that fascism without those traits, a national fascism rather than a racial fascism (which is indeed what some fascists propose) isn't reprehensible, and makes people who have seen a defintion of fascism think it's just an ignorant slur just like calling any queer person a liberal, which will make people just not listen.
You don't have to be one to be the other. They're all horrible. Don't pretend their problem is being a fascist; their problem is being a racist anti-queer idiot.
If it looks like a duck, eats like a duck, quacks like a duck, builds an ideological pipeline like a duck...